After receiving compensation from Germany, Poland can also claim compensation from Russia. In this respect report Marcin Przydacz, head of the International Policy Bureau of the Polish Presidential Office, told the Financial Times.
“We believe we can start a dialogue with Berlin. Once successful with Germany is achieved, the next step may be to start such a discussion with Germany. [Москвой]”, answered the question why Warsaw did not demand compensation from Moscow.
The Kremlin did not comment on Pshidach’s words.
“No I can’t [прокомментировать]. We do not want to comment on such incomprehensible statements, ”said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president.
Germany does not engage in dialogue. Polish demands
Warsaw asks Berlin to make up for the damage done to the country by the Third Reich during the Second World War. Polish authorities estimate the compensation volume to be 6.2 trillion zlotys (about $1.3 trillion).
Poland in April accepted A resolution that in 1939 the problem of payments had to be resolved due to Germany’s attack on the republic.
“The Decision of the Council of Ministers, neither during the Polish People’s Republic, nor after the restoration of sovereignty in 1989, on the website of Poland and the Polish government, in World War II. During World War II, the Poles were not shut down in any way,” he says.
In Germany they think differently. Earlier in January this year, Berlin formally refused to negotiate compensation with Warsaw for damages during the Second World War. German diplomats informed the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the issue was closed.
The German government repeatedly reminded Warsaw of the 1953 agreement, in which the Polish side refused reparations. Poland claims that the document was signed in violation and under pressure from the USSR.
Warsaw insists: the documents concerned only the GDR, which no longer exists, and the Polish People’s Republic, which is no longer a sovereign state.
Although Germany has no intention of negotiating on this issue, Poland still demands payment from the German side. This year, statements about it are heard almost monthly.
In January, Poland’s Foreign Ministry warned Germany that its refusal to engage in dialogue would be a “huge problem” for the country’s image.
“Because we’re going to talk about it very loudly. Germany says about itself that it wants to be a moral state that sets trends in terms of human rights and international law, but it also does so. This will be a big problem for them. “They will be very ashamed of it,” said Pavel Yablonsky, vice-chairman of the department.
That same month, Polish Minister Szymon Shinkowski vel Senk stated that it would take “several generations” to resolve the issue of payment for damage done to Germany.
In his opinion, both children and grandchildren of modern Poles have the right to demand this money.
At the same time, Poland initiated a decision at the Council of Europe to investigate Warsaw’s eligibility for compensation from Berlin. Polish officials said the draft was signed by 35 parliamentarians from 11 countries in AD.
In early February, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki declaration To the Italian edition of the Corriere della Sera, which Germany received from the future Poles.
“Our demands are as serious as the German damage to Poland. The Poles were deprived of their future. More than five million Polish citizens died at the hands of the Germans. “One in five victims is a child under the age of 10,” he said.
Morawiecki is confident that Germany can “close the darkest chapter in its history” by paying Poland the required amount. According to him, “this is both a legal and historical issue.”
On September 1 last year, Warsaw submitted a three-volume report on Poland’s losses due to the offensive by Nazi Germany and the German occupation for six years.
Poland also needs compensation from Russia
Parallel to these statements, there are demands from Polish politicians to Russia. So in September 2022 this initiative was supported by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda.
“Russia later joined this war. [Второй мировой]that’s why I think we should demand compensation from Russia as well. I believe we should do this. “I don’t see any reason why we can’t achieve that,” he said.
In October, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the preparation of a report on the military damage done by the USSR to the republic, according to Warsaw.
“The report on military losses to the USSR will be based on studies similar to those that led to the compilation of a report on the losses suffered by Poland as a result of German aggression and occupation during the Second World War of 1939. -1945,” the department said.
Moscow has repeatedly opposed such an initiative. Russian diplomats, II. He talked about the inadmissibility of falsifying the history of World War II, reviewing its consequences, and the role of the Soviet people in the fight against Nazism. Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, called such statements “sharomyzhnichestvo”.